Ain't No Cure for Love

This song brings a new interpretation on what it means to be love-sick, as Cohen and his choir confirm that the ache of love can never be "cured.". The ache for an old love is beautifully written in this song, an ache so deep that he needs to see her naked in "body and thought;" love is not lust in this song by any means, but both a bodily and spiritual connection. Religious themes are included in this song, as the holy books even confirm that there "ain't no cure" for the aching of a lost love, or even love that has been found. The last 2 stanzas have an interesting take on the wisdom of certain parts of scripture, which seem to aver the timeless aching of love rather than the "doctors" who seem to be trying to find its cures. Cohen doesn't take the term "doctors" literally, but rather uses it to represent that optimistic scientific spirit that pretends it can find cures for all our aches, even the very one that by its nature is timeless for humans: the unquenchable longing for love.

There ain't no cure for the summertime blues and there ain't no cure for the crappy muzak backing behind his voice.

What is the meaning of this song? What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of existence? There cannot be a meaning, a meaning is a reason, a cause, and a cause is always part of the existence: As it cannot be its cause, being a part, therefore there cannot be a reason for existence.

But sometimes...maybe only when you are in love, you feel it. You seem to catch it. And you know -somehow you know it- it has no reason, it is because of it itself.

But why only when you are in love?

I just stay with the title of this song: There cannot be a cure for what gives meaning to your existance. Love wraps you. It if doesn't wrap you, it is not love. And it doesn't have the effect of giving you the absolute meaning of existance.

Why it needs a cure? Because once you've seen it, you can never forget it, given it is the meaning of your existance. I wraps you, so it wraps your memory also. So you cannot forget.

You will never stop to desire, by definition it wraps your desire. And you will never get there, by definition, it determines your actions. You are there, but you cannot see it or think it, because the instrument to watch it is coarser than the absolute. That's why it's a pain you can't give up and can't stop wanting to give up. It wraps both. You don't want to be cured. You know you cannot cure.

That's why there ain't no cure for love.

I'm aching for you baby I can't pretend I'm not I need to see you naked In your body and your thought I've got you like a habit And I'll never get enough There ain't no cure, There ain't no cure, There ain't no cure for love

this part is about longing for a past lover/ very powerful lyrics!